BSc Environmental and Conservation Sciences - Wildlife & Rangeland Resources Management Approved Program Electives (APE)
Guidelines
Approved Program Electives (APE) must be selected according to the following directions:
- The total 100 and 200 level APEs cannot be greater than 2 courses(*6).
- Any courses on this list that have already been taken/granted credit for as required program courses cannot be used as an APE.
- Students must have any prerequisites listed in the calendar before taking a course; credit may be denied for courses without the appropriate prerequisites.
- After minimum requirements are met in each category, remaining APE courses can be taken from any category listed below.
- Students may take REN R 465 only once.
- Always refer to Bear Tracks for the most up to date course information.
Advanced Ecology
(Minimum 1 Course)- BIOL 331 - Population Ecology
- BIOL 332 - Community Ecology
- BIOL 333 - Wetland Ecology and Management
- BIOL 366 - Northern Ecology
- BIOL 471 - Landscape Ecology
- BOT 332 - Plant Ecology
- REN R 322 - Forest Ecosystems
- REN R 366 - Restoration Ecology
- REN R 440 - Disturbance Ecology Fundamentals
Range, Pasture and Wildland Management
(Minimum 2 Courses)- BIOL 367 - Conservation Biology
- BIOL 384 - Global Change and Ecosystems
- ENCS 407 - Rangeland Plant Communities of North America
- PL SC 324 - Crop Ecophysiology
- PL SC 495 - Integrated Crop Protection
- PL SC 499 - Cropping Systems
- REN R 340 - Introduction to Fire Science and Management
- REN R 364 - Principles of Managing Natural Diversity
- REN R 462 - Protected Areas Planning and Management
- REN R 476 - Advanced Fisheries and Wildlife Management
Soils, Remote Sensing and GIS
(Minimum 1 Course)- EAS 221 - Introduction to Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing
- REN R 314 - Forest Soils
- REN R 341 - Soil Formation and Landscape Processes
- REN R 360 - Soil and Water Conservation
- REN R 426 - Geographical Information Systems Applications in Renewable Resources
- REN R 442 - Soil Biogeochemistry
- REN R 445 - Soil Fertility
- REN R 483 - Waste Management and Utilization
- REN R 495 - Land Reclamation
Remaining APE courses may be taken from any of the above categories, or from the following:
Economics and Policy
- AREC 323 - Introduction to Management for Agri-Food, Environmental, and Forestry Businesses
- AREC 333 - Economics of Production and Resource Management
- AREC 375 - World Food and Agriculture
- AREC 384 - Food Market Analysis
- AREC 423 - Advanced Management Methods and Applications for Agri-Food, Environmental and Forestry Businesses
- AREC 433 - Financial Management in Resource Industries
- AREC 473 - Food and Agricultural Policies
- AREC 482 - Cooperatives and Alternative Business Institutions
- AREC 484 - Strategic Management in Food and Resource Businesses
- AREC 485 - Trade and Globalization in Food and Resources
- AREC 487 - Managing Market Risk in Resource Industries
- ENCS 352 - Natural Resource and Environmental Law
- FOREC 473 - Forest Policy
- NS 200 - Aboriginal Canada: Looking Forward/Looking Back
- NS 201 - Aboriginal Canada: Looking Forward/Looking Back
- PHIL 355 - Environmental Ethics
- R SOC 355 - Rural Communities and Global Economies
- R SOC 450 - Environmental Sociology
Wildlife
- BIOL 468 - Problems in Conservation Biology
- REN R 464 - Conservation and Management of Endangered Species
- ZOOL 371 - Behavioral Ecology
Animal Science
- AN SC 260 - Fundamentals of Animal Nutrition
- AN SC 310 - Physiology of Domestic Animals
- AN SC 311 - Metabolic Physiology of Domestic Animals
- AN SC 312 - Reproductive Physiology of Domestic Animals
- AN SC 320 - Livestock Growth and Meat Production
- AN SC 461 - Ruminant Digestion, Metabolism, and Nutrition
- AN SC 472 - Applied Dairy Production Science
- AN SC 474 - Applied Beef Cattle Science
- ENT 392 - Medical and Veterinary Entomology
Plant, Biology, Physiology and Management
- BIOL 381 - A Planet in Crisis
- BIOL 433 - Plant-Animal Interactions
- BOT 340 - Plant Physiology
- PL SC 352 - Invasive Alien Plants: Biology and Control
- PL SC 355 - Cereal, Oilseed, and Pulse Crops
- PL SC 380 - Principles of Plant Pathology
- REN R 321 - Tree Physiology
- REN R 421 - Advanced Tree Physiology
- REN R 468 - Conservation of Genetic Resources
Earth Resources
- BIOL 340 - Global Biogeochemistry
- EAS 205 - Violent Earth: The Geology of Catastrophic Events
- EAS 209 - Geology of Western Canada and the National and Provincial Parks
- EAS 225 - Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- EAS 250 - Biogeography
- EAS 351 - Environmental Applications of Geographical Information Systems
- EAS 373 - The Climate System
- EAS 457 - Global Change
- REN R 446 - Climates and Ecosystems